I buy a lot of fat quarters from Joann's however, they have started adding in a cheaper quality fat quarter. The closing sticker is white with black lettering. Since I do primarily scrappy quilts, and the pieces are fairly small, I use them. Joann's does carry good quality fabrics. Just try to stay away from the $2 fabrics from Walmart.

Again thank you all for your opinions!!
Debbie... I took your advise and bought some nice embroidery thread using my 40% coupon from Hobby Lobby and while was there I looked at the fabric and they just started carrying fat quarters they cut themselves from some of their better fabric and are selling the solids for .75 and the printed fabric for 1.00.
Now I just need to finish a quilt, I have about 4 started and all are in different phases :)

This is my first day to post on this board. I have read it for a long time and really enjoyed learning from each of you. I am fairly new to quilting quilts. I have made a lot of wall hangings and love that, but I just made my first quilt for a granddaughter that graduated from high school. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture. I am in the process of making three more for next year's graduations. I am going to be busy. We have 21 grandchildren from ages 20 to 4.

The quilt I am making now requires 4 inch squares with a triangle in two of the opposite corners (I will take a picture soon). Since I wanted all of the squares to be a different fabric, I have been buying cut squares from ebay. I have also bought a lot of fat quarters. I find the fabrics to be very nice and the prices are less than in the store. I set in my mind what I am willing to pay, with shipping added, and stay at that maximum. I am very pleased with my purchases and the fat quarters are lower than even 99cents a piece.

I look forward to contiuning to learn from each of you and will post a picture of what I am doing so you can critique them for my.
Thanks. :D

Welcome to the board Logcabin.
I think the name of the quilt you are referring to is Split 9 Patch. Which makes awesome quilts.

I just read about that pattern in another thread. Someone also added the link to the Quilter's Cache for that pattern.. I couldn't resist but to print it off. It would make a great pattern to use up some of my scrap fabrics!!!

I buy all my fabrics at Walmart. I've never had troubles. In fact, I'm wearing a shirt I made 4 yrs ago and it still looks new. Its was $1 a yrd fabric. I can't afford Quilt store prices, but that's just me. I have also bought from Joanns too..

I'm new to quilting, so bare with me. I've been told "if you are going to spend the time making a quilt, you should only use the best fabric". On Monday I went to Jo Ann's and saw fat quarters selling for $1.99 and then I go to a quilting store and they are selling their's for $2.75. Is Jo Ann's fat quarters a cheaper fabric and are they worth spending the money or should I buy the more expensive ones at the quilt store? I could sure use some advise and opinions.
Donna

Donna, I had the same question when I started buying fabric. Here is an article that helped me understand things a bit better, and I hope it helps you as well: http://www.fabrics.net/cotqual.asp I've actually started to collect better fabrics, and have a good time trying to find them reasonably priced.

A far as some of the other comments on this thread, please take a moment and consider that if I made snide comments about shopping at Wal-Mart, I would be run out on the rails and rightfully so. Making snide comments about people who do shop at quilt stores is no better, just reverse snobbery. To look down on either defeats the purpose of the board (IMHO.) Keeping track of my fabric information is so that I can help someone who wants to get some, not so I can "list designers and collections by name in mixed quilt company." I'd like to think I'm still a quilter. I'll happily tell anyone on the board who asks where I got a fabric and what I paid for it - hopefully I can share a bargain I found, not just because I like telling them the price. I happen to have 3 antique quilts that I would give anything to have a label on them so I could know more about the quilts and who made them - if that's a monument, then I can only hope that my great-grandchildren (should I ever have any) appreciate it.

As you can see, there are usually more than one way to look at something, and I hope we can all be more tolerant than exclusionary. I got a wonderful present last weekend, but the tone of these comments kept me from sharing it on the board. Maybe I'm not the only one?

Please don't go by what I said. I'm not a snob or anything towards Quilt Shops. I LOVE quilt shops, and don't see anything wrong with them, but I'm on a budget so buy what I can afford. PERSONALLY.... I don't think it really matters where you get your fabric, just enjoy sewing, and please share with us what your doing. :P

Like everyone else, buy what you like and use it. I always wash it first because I use, Walmart, JoAnn's and they are not created equal. I check my fabric, some of Walmart's $2.00 fabric is fine and others are not. Open it up, you can see if it is thin, the thread count is low and you DON'T want to waste your time on it as it won't last. I have used a lot of their $2-4 fabrics and they are fine. Then Jo Ann's flannels are the same way, some are good and some are too thin. I love my Erica's but nothing is under $8.00 a yard unless it is on clearance and so I usually go there for special fabrics that I can't find anywhere else or to get patterns and ideas. Hope this helps. Bernadette